I have an LG refrigerator I got about 3 years ago. It does a bunch of sizes of moon shapes and crushes. I absolutely love it.

The Bum just posted about ice crushers:
http://blog.beachbumberry.com/

Rick - may I ask what fridge/icemaker you have? Mine just does the little half-ovoids, no crusher (but plenty of hand-wringers and the Snoflake). Repeal Day shifted me towards classic cocktails, but the upcoming Teardrop event has me really hitting the books and bar on Tiki Drinks. Love Baker’s book, though the recipes can be… curious to read.

MrBaliHai - I have been doing a bit of experimenting with ice too… with the new mixer, and some new glassware (13.5 oz. zombie glasses!), it’s been a bit challenging to make sure each drink is worthy of presentation. I might have to make a Zombie punch again tonight… for science.

I’ve been conducting my own Zombie experiments over at Cocktailians. I went for the full five seconds using a standard blender and 3/4 cup of crushed ice, then added ice cubes to fill the rest of the glass as called for in the 1934 Zombie Punch recipe in Sippin’ Safari. The result was uniformly chilled, and not watery in the slightest.

My fridge produces an interesting crushed ice. I get anything from 1/4″ chunks to shaved ice. I vastly enjoy the magic the variety adds to tiki drinks.

Discussing blending techniques with Jeff Berry at Tales last year, he suggested going for a 3 second blend instead of 5. It does aerate the drink nicely without giving you any watered down taste.

Well then, I was going to keep making drinks out of Baker’s book, but it looks like it’s time for a Zombie!

And yes, I think you need to conduct many, many more experiments…in the spirit of scientific inquiry of course ;-)

I eagerly await your findings.